This chapter aims to set you on a path to becoming an effective professional debugger. It starts with a discussion of how to think about debugging—as a search problem where we aim to improve our understanding of a problem as efficiently as possible. Then, I’ll offer a menu of approaches for different kinds of problems. Since debugging often draws on pattern matching against years of experience, this chapter is just a start, but I hope it accelerates your learning.
The Philosophy of Debugging
Debugging is a search problem. We have a system which is 99.999% correct (or it wouldn’t work at all), but somewhere ...
